The Curse of Kehama, Volume 1 (of 2)

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9. And hath he spar'd us then? she cried, Half rising as she spake, For hope and joy the sudden strength supplied; In mercy hath he curb'd his cruel will, That still thou livest...

2. That Bark, in shape, was like the furrowed shell Wherein the Sea-Nymphs to their parent-king, On festal day, their duteous offerings bring. Its hue? . . . Go watch the last g...

7. They knew not that the wretched man was near, And yet it seem'd, to his distempered ear, As if they wrong'd him with their merriment. Resentfully he turn'd away his eyes, Yet...

7. At this the Witch, through shrivell'd lips and thin, Sent forth a sound half-whistle and half-hiss. Two winged Hands came in, {117} Armless and bodyless, Bearing a globe of l...

From a late investigation, it appears, that the number {143} of women who sacrifice themselves within thirty miles round Calcutta every year, is, on an average, upwards of two h...

_Matali_. That, O king! is the mountain of Gandharvas, named Hémacúta: The universe contains not a more excellent place for the successful devotion of the pious. There Casyapa,...

The author of the History of the Discovery and Conquest has given us a particular account of it, which I shall relate here at large. "The district in which this tree stands is c...

"The head of that unblemished horse is the symbol of the morning; his eyes are the sun; his breath the wind; his wide-opening mouth is the Bishwaner, or that innate warmth which...

"Thus instructed by their father Sugura, they, in obedience to him, went with cheerful mind, O Rama! to the bottom of the earth. The strong ones, having gone over the earth with...

And now, Seeva, after the arrival of all the Devetas, and the completion of the preparations for the procession, set out, in the utmost pomp and splendour, from the mountain Kil...

[4] The Hindoos call a child _Bala_ till it attains the age of fifteen years old. From the sixteenth year to the fiftieth, _Youvuna_, or a state of youth, is supposed to continu...